We are looking for a few good people who believe that Israel needs better PR in the world.

A new television program will be produced to be aired worldwide to create better PR for Israel as well as raise the whole issue of global terrorism and a nuclear Iran as a danger to the whole Western World in addition to Israel.

Here is an excerpt from a speech given by Geert Wilders – a Dutch Parliamentarian and chairman of the Party for Freedom, the Netherlands as well as the Producer of the film FITNA – at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York at an event sponsored by the Hudson Institute.

“Now, I would like to say a few things about Israel. Because, very soon, we
will get together in its capitol. The best way for a politician in Europe to
lose votes is to say something positive about Israel. The public has
wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the
aggressor. I, however, will continue to speak up for Israel. I see defending
Israel as a matter of principle. I have lived in this country and visited it
dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland
after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second
because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of
defense.

Samuel Huntington writes it so aptly: “Islam has bloody borders”. Israel is
located precisely on that border. This tiny country is situated on the fault
line of jihad, frustrating Islam’s territorial advance. Israel is facing the
front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern
Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply
in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the
West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for
all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would
have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest.
Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake
at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of
the dangers looming.”

We are looking for a few good people who believe that Israel needs better PR in the world.

A new television program will be produced to be aired worldwide to create better PR for Israel as well as raise the whole issue of global terrorism and a nuclear Iran as a danger to the whole Western World in addition to Israel.

I recently read a very important column in the Jerusalem Post written by Evelyn Gordon titled “When Violence Replaces Democracy”. It is a very sad yet critical analysis that should definately be read by anyone interested in better understanding Israeli society today and the deep feelings of mistrust, held by many, in the Israeli political system.

Evelyn does a very important job of outlining the actual cases where the democratic practices and norms were trampled upon by Israeli governments over the years, leaving a large percentage of the Israeli public feeling hopeless with regards to bringing about any change to Israeli policy via democratic elections. The feeling is that the democratic system just doesn’t work.

Menora Chazani has recently made a movie that also touches upon this important topic. Her movie is called Hitnaari and it documents her personal thought journey from an obedient citizen to one that has a very hard time respecting the authorities and the laws that they enact.

Menora’s narrative in the movie is less based upon the Israeli government’s trampling of democratic norms and more based on the policies and atmesphere that the Israeli government created that made her and her fellow friends and neighbors feel like an enemy of the state, while they lived in the community of Chomesh before it was uprooted in the summer of 2005.

To begin to understand the importance of this topic I also highly recommend clicking here to see a video interview with Menora about the movie (the interview is in Hebrew without English subtitles)

Menora’s narrative in Hitnaari is also a sad yet extremely important process to hear and witness in order to better understand Israeli society today. Many would rather cover their heads in the sand and pretend as if all these feelings of mistrust in the Israeli government don’t exist at all. But that is not the case.

Unfortunately, ignoring the situation does nothing to help solve today’s situation. In order to truly make a difference these feelings of mistrust must be heard and understood and only then can they be dealt with properly to make a difference.